Department of Defense obligations in Washington state

Defense awards and Washington geography as a pair

This tie keeps awards that are both Department of Defense (code 097) and Washington place of performance (WA). $68,620,818,780.09 is the obligation sum. 126,726 is the award count. Remove the state and you have the agency hub; remove the agency and you have Washington’s full federal mix. Neither parent equals this pair.

One hundred twenty-six thousand seven hundred twenty-six awards under $68.62 billion is a high-count pattern. Many modest actions can sit beside a smaller number of very large contracts inside the same average of about $541,000. The join does not publish the mix.

The temptation is to narrate $68,620,818,780.09 as money delivered to residents, then to narrate 126,726 as people served. Neither translation is in the fields. Obligations are commitments. Award count is records. The overlay, not the average, is the next step for anyone who needs rows.

Agency 097, not every military dollar in the Pacific Northwest

USAspending’s awarding-agency code 097 is labeled Department of Defense. Components, services, and defense agencies may report under that code or under others depending on the award. This page does not merge other codes. The $68,620,818,780.09 total is 097 × WA only.

The Department of Defense agency page omits the Washington filter. The Washington state page omits the 097 filter. The overlay /states/wa/agencies/097/ is where 126,726 awards are the operational count.

A common error is to treat the agency page as if it were this state slice, or the state page as if it were this agency. $68,620,818,780.09 is the intersection. 126,726 is the intersection’s row count. The parents include rows this page excludes.

Washington is not “the West Coast”

Place of performance WA does not include Oregon, Idaho, or Alaska. Defense awards coded to those states are outside $68,620,818,780.09. Place of performance also is not the same as the contractor’s headquarters state. A firm in another state can perform in Washington, and a Washington-based firm can perform elsewhere.

The Washington federal spending hub is the context for seeing agency 097 next to civilian awarding agencies in the same state file. That adjacency is not a statement about which sector dominates the state economy.

Households, facilities, and vendors are not columns in the packet. Listing them would be invention. $68,620,818,780.09 remains an obligation sum on a state tag. The overlay can show rows; this narrative will not invent names for those rows.

Obligations on a high-volume Defense file

Each of the 126,726 records can carry an obligation that is later modified. The published sum $68,620,818,780.09 is the aggregate of those obligation amounts as harvested, not a cash disbursement total. Outlays are a different USAspending concept and are not in these facts.

No year is supplied in the packet, so this page does not assign the $68.62 billion to a fiscal year. Average about $541,000 is only the two facts divided.

What a Defense–Washington join is not

The pair does not prove that bases, shipyards, or contractors caused the total, because those proper names are not in the facts. It does not prove Washington is more militarized than another state. It does not connect Pentagon obligations to campaign finance. See Department of Defense in Washington, Washington federal spending, Department of Defense, and All spending ties.

How to read this pair next to the hubs

Washington’s Defense pair is a high-count file: 126,726 awards summing to $68,620,818,780.09, about $541,000 per record.

Navigation: Department of Defense in Washington for the pair, Washington federal spending for all agencies on this geography, Department of Defense for this agency without the state, All spending ties for other joins. Quote $68,620,818,780.09 with both keys. Quote 126,726 as records.

Legal commitments can be de-obligated. Payments can trail. This page has the commitment field only. $68,620,818,780.09 is therefore not a cash figure. The geography field is not a services roster.

Snapshot versus live table: if they diverge, the overlay wins. Do not forecast from the average. Do not blend FEC and USAspending. The intersection is $68,620,818,780.09 on 126,726 awards.

Questions

How much has the Department of Defense obligated in Washington?

USAspending records $68,620,818,780.09 in obligations for agency 097 (Department of Defense) with Washington place of performance, on 126,726 awards. That is an obligation join, not an outlay total. The pair is awarding agency 097 (Department of Defense) and place-of-performance Washington.

Why is the average award about $541,000?

Because $68,620,818,780.09 divided by 126,726 awards is about $541,000. A high award count pulls the mean down compared with thin, grant-heavy files. The mean is not a typical contract vehicle. That ratio uses only $68,620,818,780.09 and 126,726 from the packet.

Does this include Oregon or other nearby states?

No. Place of performance is Washington (WA) only. The $68,620,818,780.09 and 126,726 awards exclude other state codes. Only place-of-performance Washington plus awarding agency 097 (Department of Defense) enter $68,620,818,780.09. Adjacent state codes are other filters, if they exist as ties at all.

Is this the entire Defense Department budget?

No. It is agency 097 crossed with Washington place of performance. Other states and other agency codes are separate pages. $68,620,818,780.09 is the intersection of Department of Defense (code 097) and Washington place of performance. Awards the same agency codes to other states sit on other pages.